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Rock-Solid Evidence
In a WHOI laboratory, geophysicist Rob Reves-Sohn (left), geologist Adam Soule, and graduate student Claire Willis analyze samples of seafloor deposits brought back from the Gakkel Ridge. Those deposits have…
Read MoreEarth, Wind, and Fire in Antarctica
By Hugh Powell :: Originally published online June 25, 2008
Read MoreWater World
Thick cumulus clouds rise above the relatively calm waters of the North Atlantic in the summer of 2004. WHOI researchers enjoyed the view from the research vessel Knorr during an…
Read MoreCell Counts
On the research vessel Oceanus in May 2008, the backside of a hatch to the lower decks serves as the bulletin board and presentation backdrop for oceanographer Dennis McGillicuddy as…
Read MoreWash Up Before Supper
Researchers clean the muck from their sensors at the end of a day in the Waves Over Really Muddy Seafloors Experiment (WormsEx) along the Louisiana coast. Scientists affiliated with WHOI’s…
Read MoreThose Were the Days
Engineers and students from the WHOI Deep Submergence Laboratory gather around the first full-scale Jason remotely operated vehicle (ROV) in the Blake Building in 1990. Now in its third generation,…
Read MoreGetting a Grip on Biogeochemistry
MIT/WHOI Joint Program student Louie Wurch (top) and chemistry research assistant Justin Ossolinski recover a conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) rosette from the Sargasso Sea in April 2008. Marine chemist Ben Van Mooy…
Read MoreHalf-sunny or Half-cloudy?
Fair weather meets foul late on an August 2004 day in the Beaufort Sea, north of Alaska. Since 2003, WHOI researchers have been examining the dynamics and changes in Arctic…
Read MoreA Whale of a Good Time
Kindergarten children from the Saint Margaret Regional School (Buzzards Bay, Mass.) enjoy listening and learning about whales during a visit to the WHOI Ocean Science Exhibit Center in May 2008.…
Read MoreSt. Louis Has Nothing on this Arch
A zodiak carries a group of WHOI Associates and other ecotoursts through an iceberg arch off Antarctica. WHOI scientists Susan Humphris and Pat Lohmann from the Geology and Geophysics Department…
Read MoreArctic Ecoysystem Voyage
Corals Branching Out
WHOI biologists Lauren Mullineaux (left) and Susan Mills hold a specimen of Paragorgia, a species of coral that they collected for research from the summit of Manning Seamount in the…
Read MoreA Perfect Pond
A conductivity/temperature/depth (CTD) rosette is lowered into the East Greenland Coastal Current in August 2004. Researchers from WHOI and the Johns Hopkins University investigated the origin and structure of the…
Read MoreA different era of oceanography
The research vessel Caryn waits out the winter at a snowy Woods Hole dock in the 1950s. The vessel made 110 cruises on behalf of WHOI research from 1948-1958. WHOI…
Read MoreLearning a lot from a little
This dinoflagellate, the algae Dinophysis, was collected in the icy waters of the Ross Sea, Antarctica. WHOI biologists are interested in the diversity and activity of protists (protozoa and algae)…
Read MoreKeeping Track of the Shifting Sands
WHOI research associate Peter Schultz conducts a survey of the shoreline near La Jolla, Calif., using a dolly mounted with a global positioning system receiver. Researchers from WHOI and nine…
Read MoreWhat a Rush
Meltwater rushes in a stream across the top of the Greenland Ice Sheet in July 2007. Surface melt plays a significant role in the overall dynamic movements of the ice…
Read MoreCh-Ch-Changes…
When scientists observed and analyzed four decades of hydrographic data, they found that tropical and subtropical Atlantic waters had become saltier over the course of 40 years (shown in top…
Read MoreLogging a Day in the Life of a Whale
Whale specialist Natacha Aguilar De Soto of the University of La Laguna (Canary Islands) and WHOI bio-engineer Mark Johnson analyze large files of numerical data collected by digital tags (or…
Read MoreYou Can Go Home Again
WHOI volunteer George LeRoy packs 70-year-old biological samples for shipping to the Zoologisk Museum in Copenhagen. WHOI biologists Mary Sears and Henry Bryant Bigelow had borrowed the Pacific Ocean specimens…
Read MoreRiver Watch
Rocky Geyer (left) and postdoctoral scholar Dave Ralston (now a WHOI assistant scientist) remove instruments from a mooring on the working deck of the research vessel Tioga in July 2005.…
Read MoreParking Lot Full Today
Marine mammal specialist Michael Moore (left) and MIT/WHOI student Regina Campbell-Malone (now a postdoctoral investigator at WHOI and Brown University) use fine lines to suspend the skeleton of a right…
Read MoreInto the Deep Blue Yonder
The autonomous underwater vehicle Sentry is lowered into the North Atlantic for deep-ocean testing during a cruise on the R/V Oceanus in April 2008. Engineers are in the final stages…
Read MoreWorld Ocean Day
A humpback whale dips just below the surface in the Hawaiian breeding grounds between Maui and Lanai. The whale approached researchers in response to their playback of a recording of…
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